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Remote Team Management: The Do's and Don'ts

Remote team management has always been different for team managers and leaders. Not just challenging, but different. Not having the luxury to rub shoulders often and not having the liberty to have the entire team under one roof has compelled leaders to acquire new and innovative approaches to remote leadership. And while leadership styles and management approaches are ever-evolving, there are some core principles of effective remote team management that team leaders can stick to.

What does the future hold for supply chain processes?

Global supply chains have been under immense pressure over the past year, fighting to keep up with unprecedented demand for online goods and critical healthcare supplies while battling stock shortages around the world. However, businesses on the whole came out swinging, managing to scale quickly and competently adapt to the restrictive working procedures necessary to fulfil orders and keep customers happy.

Customer Success: Build Better Customer Relationships

Does your professional services firm invest in customer success? Studies reveal that customer-centric firms are 60% more profitable than their peers. That explains how important customer success should be to your business. Particularly, those offering professional services because such firms thrive on long-standing relationships with their customers.

Winter 2021 Updates for Alloy Software ITSM/ITAM Platform

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new update (8.7.3) for the Alloy Software ITSM/ITAM platform, including Navigator, Navigator Express, and Discovery. This maintenance update resolves issues reported in previous versions, offers Apple M1 Chip support, and expands API integration capabilities. For detailed information about all changes in this update, please see Release Notes on the Alloy Documentation Portal.

ServiceNow and Microsoft power virtual agent collaboration on Teams for the new distributed world of work

On-demand collaboration happens fast nowadays. Service agents, from IT, HR and other departments, need to collaborate quickly to resolve employee needs before they become larger issues. Great employee experiences demand end-to-end integration and execution at scale. No longer a nice-to-have, productive collaboration has become essential for business continuity and enterprise resilience, as some workers start to return to the physical workplace.

End Your CMDB Saga with AIOps + Automation

The CMDB has been around for decades, creating heartache and misery for the IT people tasked with maintaining it. Originally implemented to help track and manage ever-changing IT assets, more often than not, the CMDB is outdated the moment the last keystrokes are made. This eBook explores the checkered past of the CMDB and how AIOps and IT automation tools are helping it overcome its bad reputation to usher in a new era where the CMDB can finally deliver on its long-awaited promise.

Customer Service Teams Are Challenged | StartingPoint

Customer service is a regular challenge for service-based companies. Customers ask "What is the status of my request".."Did you receive my question?" .. "What is the status of my project?"... "Did you get the file I sent to you?"...All of these can lead to confusion. Service-based teams are also using a lot of different tools to support a customer and none of the tools talk together. These challenges lead to wasted time and money. How can service-based companies solve this problem?

The New Ivanti Browser Management

A targeted approach to improving users’ browser experiences while minimizing the impact on IT As today’s modern IT estates see an exponential increase in the use of SaaS-based applications year-over-year, many of those applications are being accessed through the browser. The ability to manage browser usage, data, and synchronization has become critical to positive experiences for local, mobile, and remote users.

Application Performance Monitoring: Why is it important for your organization?

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) refers to monitoring or managing the performance of your code, application dependencies, transaction times, & overall user experiences. It is an important technology that ensures the computer application programs are performing as expected. The ultimate goal of performance monitoring is to supply end users with a top quality end-user experience.

Stranded with Cherwell? Migrate seamlessly to Freshservice

Ivanti’s recent acquisition of Cherwell surprised the ITSM industry, and stirred up more questions rather than answers. These two legacy giants have competing ITSM platforms with overlapping offerings. How will the two converge? Which roadmap will they follow? What will happen to the customer experience? Uncertainty in the future of your IT investment brings about doubt and anxiety.